Corpus Viewer

Root / 中國漢文 / clean / 商殷朝 / 花園庄(洹北) / 花园庄东地甲骨 / 英譯文 / HYZ 267.1.txt

Work: 花园庄东地甲骨 Viewing: Source
Metadata
Work
花园庄东地甲骨
Nation
商殷朝
Categories
商殷朝,甲骨文
Catalog
HYZ 267.1
Source
Schwartz, A. C. (2019). The Oracle Bone Inscriptions from Huayuanzhuang East. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501505294-001
Divined on Jihai: Our lord, staying overnight in Rong, at dawn will kill some pen-raised cattle (for) Ancestress Geng. Used.403 1 402 Mu is spelled differently than the time word mu evening. Here it is a place name and modifies the word cattle. It is comparable to Xuns cattle in the sentence yu Gui sha Xun niu By day Gui kill Xuns cattle (474.9). 403 The appearance of the preposition yu , and not zai , in the locative clause means that at the time of the divination the protagonist was not yet in Rong. He planned to be there later and to spend the night. Before dawn on the following day, Gengzi, the protagonist sacri- ficed pen-raised cattle for his grandmothers day of worship. HYZ 267 | 263